Just how bad is it?
I think PTA will never direct again after this humiliation, it's for the better probably, Licorice Pizza was quirk chungus boomer nostalgia overload, unwatchable, one of the worst films I have ever seen.

>>212933509 (OP)
This movie is probably going to be awful, but you're a fucking retard.

PTA just doesn't have it in him anymore. His last worthwhile movie was Inherent Vice, well over 10 years ago.

>When their evil enemy resurfaces after 16 years, a group of ex-revolutionaries reunites to rescue one of their own's daughter
kek

>>212933509 (OP)
Licorice just proved that hes attrocious with a camera in his hand. I mean, he is truly clueless. One Battle is just as bad, judging by the trailers, but just give him a decent cinematographer, and there's chance for him. The problem is that he's very stubborn about it. One of those auters that will do his thing, despite people telling him that it's bad.

It looks horrible like his last movie

>watch trailer
>blacks and blacks and blacks

nah.

>>212933509 (OP)
He's been awful since The Master

>>212934817
The Master is his best film and in top 10 best movies of this century so far

>be one of the only writer directors who can actually write good scripts
>lose the second ability but keep writing your own scripts anyway

guy has become indistinguishable from Eggers or Aster, it's a shame.

He was always a hack.

I cannot rest until I find out what the suits at WB were thinking when they gave Paul Thomas Anderson -- a director whose biggest runaway success made only ~80mil worldwide and whose most films break even just barely on budgets of ~30mil -- one hundred to one hundred forty million (by different estimates). I cannot but picture them as picrel, but even stupider

>>212935708
WB is the most batshit studio in the business. Superman is a huge bomb (costs for the movie on all aspects is well over 500 million) and yet the movie will barely cap at 600 million. For fuck's sake, that's Joker 2 level bomb. And Zazlav came out and pretended it was some huge success. WB is in the worst shape of its existence right now.

>>212935708
>programmed to underestimate middle America
We've degenerated so far in 20 years that now middle America isn't even looked down on. They're ignored entirely and seen as a nonfactor when talking about TV and film audiences.

>>212933509 (OP)
saw the trailer and immediately checked out when the black commie woman was firing a gun

>>212936315
Same. It has an ugly quality about it. I don't care if it's intentional or not. It's like a piece of shit expects me to gaze it. I won't.

>>212933509 (OP)
Premiering your expensive movie at a prestegious festival can backfire unless you know you're going to get good buzz, and then maybe the movie gets its general release only a few days later. Look at what happened with Dial of Destiny a couple years ago where it premiered at Cannes to a muted response and then didn't actually get released to the public until an entire month or so later, by the time it came out there was no hype at all.

>>212937195
Dial of Destiny is franchise slop, PTA is art movie stuff, if it isn't premiering at a festival it's almost guaranteed to be horrid

>>212935708
WB has basically admitted that the only reason PTA got that budget was because he locked-in Leonardo diCaprio is the lead. Just goes to show how important your lead actor can still be.

>>212937265
>PTA is art movie stuff
Not with $140 million budget it isn't. There's evidence that this movie has already had several test screenings as well, so obviously it isn't just some "art project" for PTA and WB.

>>212937388
Megalopolis cost 100 million, so what. They just dumped money into PTA hoping to invest into prestige but he fucked up.
If you're wondering what the film is - it's a Vineland adaptation but the time period is moved further to now, so instead of Reagan-era it's either Bush-era or Trump first term. Maybe Obama if PTA tried to be "edgy". A Pynchon adaptation cannot be anything but an art movie.

>>212935708
the budget is probably inflated like all of them.

the thing you have to understand is that no executive is willing to make decisions based on assessing the quality of a script, because that makes them more personally responsible for a film's failure. that's why WB had to specifically hire James Gunn to do that for them.

>>212937485
>Megalopolis cost 100 million, so what.
Yes but FFC funded the movie out of his own pocket. He didn't have to answer to anyone.

>>212937490
Leo alone would have been paid $20 million. Look at Joker 2 where Todd Phillips, Joquain and Lady Gaga got paid a total of $52 million dollars up-front, before the movie even began photography. Not hard to blow cash on these big studio movies if everybody's getting paid well.

>>212933509 (OP)
Don't care, it's PTA. Even his bad movies are better than the average slop we get each year.
Will watch opening week.

Just know that the anons saying PTA sucks are the same ones that stack the board with hundreds of Superman threads in the space of an hour.

>>212938891
shut up paul no one wants to watch you self insert with your giga babboon wife and mulatto spawn trash flick

>>212938891
PTA sucks. Capeslop sucks. You're a faggot.

>>212935708
Who the fuck cares about the studio and their budget.

>>212939664
fags and the artless

>>212938823
This. Meanwhile the capeshit zoomers will be talking about how it “flopped” because it didn’t score at le box office.

>>212939724
The same people enjoying watching Eddington bomb, but asking for a camrip anyway.

>>212933509 (OP)
I want it to flop just because Licorice Pizza sucked so hard. Talk about disappearing up your own ass

>>212938823
Grim